Authorities arrested 12 people suspected of having made US$12 million by stealing electronics or printer ink cartridges from stores like Staples, Office Depot or BestBuy and then reselling them on Amazon and eBay.

A Chinese court has sentenced the former politician and chairman of one of the country’s largest state-owned automakers to 11.5 years for graft, state media said Thursday, the latest high-profile target in President Xi Jinping's sweeping crackdown on corruption.

Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister has suspended two senior ministers and launched an investigation into allegations that they benefited from a US$ 31 million corruption scandal, local media reported Monday.

Anger over a government decree that could free dozens of corrupt officials triggered the largest protests Romania has seen since the 1989 revolution and prompted one of the country’s ministers to resign on Thursday.

A former Mexican state governor was arrested Thursday for embezzlement and misusing state funds after he allegedly granted irregular tax incentives to Korean carmaker KIA Motors which cost the state 3.128 billion pesos (US$ 147 million), state officials reported.

A Chinese court sentenced the former deputy head of the country's State General Administration of Sports, a post equivalent to that of a deputy minister, to ten-and-a-half years in prison on Monday for accepting bribes while serving in several government posts.